EP2069898B1 - Portable electonic device performing similar oprations for different gestures - Google Patents

Portable electonic device performing similar oprations for different gestures Download PDF

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EP2069898B1
EP2069898B1 EP07841980.1A EP07841980A EP2069898B1 EP 2069898 B1 EP2069898 B1 EP 2069898B1 EP 07841980 A EP07841980 A EP 07841980A EP 2069898 B1 EP2069898 B1 EP 2069898B1
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  • the disclosed embodiments relate generally to portable electronic devices, and more particularly, to portable electronic devices that perform similar operations in response to different finger gestures.
  • One important aspect of measuring a user interface's user-friendliness is whether the user interface accepts different types of user actions that correspond to the same function. Different users can choose different user actions based on their own preferences or habits. One user can choose different user actions at different times depending on which user action is more convenient than others at a specific moment.
  • US2002/0163545 discloses a browser application providing tabs for different web page windows and providing preview function and implementation in combination with touch screen devices.
  • US2004/0205496 discloses a web browser being suitable for providing one and the same display response in response to different user input gestures.
  • FR-2830093 discloses a portable device with a touch screen allowing to scroll through a set of icons via swipe gestures.
  • US2006/0284852 and GB2301217 disclose touch sensitive displays interpreting swipe gesture and changing a display content in response.
  • the portable electronic device has a touch-sensitive display (also known as a “touch screen” or “touch screen display”) with a graphical user interface (GUI), one or more processors, memory and one or more modules, programs or sets of instructions stored in the memory for performing multiple functions.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the user interacts with the GUI primarily through finger contacts and gestures on the touch-sensitive display.
  • Instructions for performing operations may be included in a computer readable storage medium or other computer program product configured for execution by one or more processors.
  • the present invention involves a computer-implemented method in a portable electronic device with a touch screen display according to claim 1.
  • Another aspect of the invention involves a portable electronic device according to claim 8.
  • Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-program product according to claim 15.
  • the invention provides a transparent and intuitive user interface that performs similar operations in response to different finger gestures on a portable electronic device with a touch screen display.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram illustrating a portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Figure 2 illustrates a portable electronic device having a touch screen in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Figure 3 illustrates an exemplary user interface for unlocking a portable electronic device in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Figure 4 illustrates an exemplary user interface for a menu of applications on a portable electronic device in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Figure 5 illustrates an exemplary user interface for viewing albums in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Figure 6 illustrates an exemplary user interface for viewing an album in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Figure 7 illustrates an exemplary user interface for viewing enlarged images in an album in accordance with some embodiments.
  • FIGS 8A through 8D illustrate exemplary user interfaces for a browser in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Figure 9 is a generalized flowchart illustrating a process for performing a predefined operation upon detecting multiple types of user gestures on the portable electronic device's touch screen in accordance with some embodiments.
  • first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another. For example, a first gesture could be termed a second gesture, and, similarly, a second gesture could be termed a first gesture, without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • the term “if” may be construed to mean “when” or “upon” or “in response to determining” or “in response to detecting,” depending on the context.
  • the phrase “if it is determined” or “if [a stated condition or event] is detected” may be construed to mean “upon determining” or “in response to determining” or “upon detecting [the stated condition or event]” or “in response to detecting [the stated condition or event],” depending on the context.
  • the device is a portable communications device such as a mobile telephone that also contains other functions, such as PDA and/or music player functions.
  • the user interface may include a physical click wheel in addition to a touch screen or a virtual click wheel displayed on the touch screen.
  • a click wheel is a physical user-interface device that may provide navigation commands based on an angular displacement of the wheel or a point of contact with the wheel by a user of the portable electronic device.
  • a click wheel may also be used to provide a user command corresponding to selection of one or more items, for example, when the user of the portable electronic device presses down on at least a portion of the wheel or the center of the wheel.
  • breaking contact with a click wheel image on a touch screen surface may indicate a user command corresponding to selection.
  • a portable electronic device that includes a touch screen is used as an exemplary embodiment.
  • the device supports a variety of applications, such as one or more of the following: a telephone application, a video conferencing application, an email application, an instant messaging application, a blogging application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video camera application, a web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player application.
  • applications such as one or more of the following: a telephone application, a video conferencing application, an email application, an instant messaging application, a blogging application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video camera application, a web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player application.
  • the various applications that may be executed on the device may use at least one common physical user-interface device, such as the touch screen.
  • One or more functions of the touch screen as well as corresponding information displayed on the device may be adjusted and/or varied from one application to the next and/or within a respective application.
  • a common physical architecture (such as the touch screen) of the device may support the variety of applications with user interfaces that are intuitive and transparent.
  • the user interfaces may include one or more soft keyboard embodiments.
  • the soft keyboard embodiments may include standard (QWERTY) and/or non-standard configurations of symbols on the displayed icons of the keyboard, such as those described in U.S. Patent Applications 11/459,606 , "Keyboards for Portable Electronic Devices," filed July 24, 2006, and 11/459,615 "Touch Screen Keyboards for Portable Electronic Devices,” filed July 24, 2006, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
  • the keyboard embodiments may include a reduced number of icons (or soft keys) relative to the number of keys in existing physical keyboards, such as that for a typewriter. This may make it easier for users to select one or more icons in the keyboard, and thus, one or more corresponding symbols.
  • the keyboard embodiments may be adaptive.
  • displayed icons may be modified in accordance with user actions, such as selecting one or more icons and/or one or more corresponding symbols.
  • One or more applications on the portable electronic device may utilize common and/or different keyboard embodiments.
  • the keyboard embodiment used may be tailored to at least some of the applications.
  • one or more keyboard embodiments may be tailored to a respective user. For example, based on a word usage history (lexicography, slang, individual usage) of the respective user. Some of the keyboard embodiments may be adjusted to reduce a probability of a user error when selecting one or more icons, and thus one or more symbols, when using the soft keyboard embodiments.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a portable electronic device 100 with a touch-sensitive display 112 in accordance with some embodiments.
  • the touch-sensitive display 112 is sometimes called a "touch screen" for convenience.
  • the device 100 may include a memory 102 (which may include one or more computer readable storage mediums), a memory controller 122, one or more processing units (CPU's) 120, a peripherals interface 118, RF circuitry 108, audio circuitry 110, a speaker 111, a microphone 113, an input/output (I/O) subsystem 106, other input or control devices 116, and an external port 124.
  • the device 100 may include one or more optical sensors 164. These components may communicate over one or more communication buses or signal lines 103.
  • the device 100 is only one example of a portable electronic device 100, and that the device 100 may have more or fewer components than shown, may combine two or more components, or a may have a different configuration or arrangement of the components.
  • the various components shown in Figure 1 may be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of hardware and software, including one or more signal processing and/or application specific integrated circuits.
  • Memory 102 may include high-speed random access memory and may also include non-volatile memory, such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memory devices, or other non-volatile solid-state memory devices. Access to memory 102 by other components of the device 100, such as the CPU 120 and the peripherals interface 118, may be controlled by the memory controller 122.
  • the peripherals interface 118 couples the input and output peripherals of the device to the CPU 120 and memory 102.
  • the one or more processors 120 run or execute various software programs and/or sets of instructions stored in memory 102 to perform various functions for the device 100 and to process data.
  • the peripherals interface 118, the CPU 120, and the memory controller 122 may be implemented on a single chip, such as a chip 104. In some other embodiments, they may be implemented on separate chips.
  • the RF (radio frequency) circuitry 108 receives and sends RF signals, also called electromagnetic signals.
  • the RF circuitry 108 converts electrical signals to/from electromagnetic signals and communicates with communications networks and other communications devices via the electromagnetic signals.
  • the RF circuitry 108 may include well-known circuitry for performing these functions, including but not limited to an antenna system, an RF transceiver, one or more amplifiers, a tuner, one or more oscillators, a digital signal processor, a CODEC chipset, a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, memory, and so forth.
  • SIM subscriber identity module
  • the RF circuitry 108 may communicate with networks, such as the Internet, also referred to as the World Wide Web (WWW), an intranet and/or a wireless network, such as a cellular telephone network, a wireless local area network (LAN) and/or a metropolitan area network (MAN), and other devices by wireless communication.
  • networks such as the Internet, also referred to as the World Wide Web (WWW), an intranet and/or a wireless network, such as a cellular telephone network, a wireless local area network (LAN) and/or a metropolitan area network (MAN), and other devices by wireless communication.
  • networks such as the Internet, also referred to as the World Wide Web (WWW), an intranet and/or a wireless network, such as a cellular telephone network, a wireless local area network (LAN) and/or a metropolitan area network (MAN), and other devices by wireless communication.
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • MAN metropolitan area network
  • the wireless communication may use any of a plurality of communications standards, protocols and technologies, including but not limited to Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE), wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), Bluetooth, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) (e.g., IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g and/or IEEE 802.11n), voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Wi-MAX, a protocol for email, instant messaging, and/or Short Message Service (SMS)), or any other suitable communication protocol, including communication protocols not yet developed as of the filing date of this document.
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • EDGE Enhanced Data GSM Environment
  • W-CDMA wideband code division multiple access
  • CDMA code division multiple access
  • TDMA time division multiple access
  • Bluetooth Bluetooth
  • Wi-Fi e.g., IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
  • the audio circuitry 110, the speaker 111, and the microphone 113 provide an audio interface between a user and the device 100.
  • the audio circuitry 110 receives audio data from the peripherals interface 118, converts the audio data to an electrical signal, and transmits the electrical signal to the speaker 111.
  • the speaker 111 converts the electrical signal to human-audible sound waves.
  • the audio circuitry 110 also receives electrical signals converted by the microphone 113 from sound waves.
  • the audio circuitry 110 converts the electrical signal to audio data and transmits the audio data to the peripherals interface 118 for processing. Audio data may be retrieved from and/or transmitted to memory 102 and/or the RF circuitry 108 by the peripherals interface 118.
  • the audio circuitry 110 also includes a headset jack (not shown).
  • the headset jack provides an interface between the audio circuitry 110 and removable audio input/output peripherals, such as output-only headphones or a headset with both output (e.g., a headphone for one or both ears) and input (e.g
  • the I/O subsystem 106 couples input/output peripherals on the device 100, such as the touch screen 112 and other input/control devices 116, to the peripherals interface 118.
  • the IO subsystem 106 may include a display controller 156 and one or more input controllers 160 for other input or control devices.
  • the one or more input controllers 160 receive send electrical signals from/to other input or control devices 116.
  • the other input control devices 116 may include physical buttons (e.g., push buttons, rocker buttons, etc.), dials, slider switches, joysticks, click wheels, and so forth.
  • input controller(s) 160 may be coupled to any (or none) of the following: a keyboard, infrared port, USB port, and a pointer device such as a mouse.
  • the one or more buttons may include an up/down button for volume control of the speaker 111 and/or the microphone 113.
  • the one or more buttons may include a push button (e.g., 206, Figure 2 ).
  • a quick press of the push button may disengage a lock of the touch screen 112 or begin a process that uses gestures on the touch screen to unlock the device, as described in U.S. Patent Application 11/322,549 , "Unlocking a Device by Performing Gestures on an Unlock Image," filed December 23, 2005, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • a longer press of the push button (e.g., 206) may turn power to the device 100 on or off.
  • the user may be able to customize a functionality of one or more of the buttons.
  • the touch screen 112 is used to implement virtual or soft buttons and one or more soft keyboards.
  • the touch-sensitive touch screen 112 provides an input interface and an output interface between the device and a user.
  • the display controller 156 receives and/or sends electrical signals from/to the touch screen 112.
  • the touch screen 112 displays visual output to the user.
  • the visual output may include graphics, text, icons, video, and any combination thereof (collectively termed "graphics"). In some embodiments, some or all of the visual output may correspond to user-interface objects, further details of which are described below.
  • a touch screen 112 has a touch-sensitive surface, sensor or set of sensors that accepts input from the user based on haptic and/or tactile contact.
  • the touch screen 112 and the display controller 156 (along with any associated modules and/or sets of instructions in memory 102) detect contact (and any movement or breaking of the contact) on the touch screen 112 and converts the detected contact into interaction with user-interface objects (e.g., one or more soft keys, icons, web pages or images) that are displayed on the touch screen.
  • user-interface objects e.g., one or more soft keys, icons, web pages or images
  • a point of contact between a touch screen 112 and the user corresponds to a finger of the user.
  • the touch screen 112 may use LCD (liquid crystal display) technology, or LPD (light emitting polymer display) technology, although other display technologies may be used in other embodiments.
  • the touch screen 112 and the display controller 156 may detect contact and any movement or breaking thereof using any of a plurality of touch sensing technologies now known or later developed, including but not limited to capacitive, resistive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave technologies, as well as other proximity sensor arrays or other elements for determining one or more points of contact with a touch screen 112.
  • a touch-sensitive display in some embodiments of the touch screen 112 may be analogous to the multi-touch sensitive tablets described in the following U.S. Patents: 6,323,846 (Westerman et al.
  • a touch screen 112 displays visual output from the portable electronic device 100, whereas touch sensitive tablets do not provide visual output.
  • the touch screen 112 may have a resolution in excess of 100 dpi. In an exemplary embodiment, the touch screen in the display system has a resolution of approximately 168 dpi.
  • the user may make contact with the touch screen 112 using any suitable object or appendage, such as a stylus, a finger, and so forth.
  • the user interface is designed to work primarily with finger-based contacts and gestures, which are much less precise than stylus-based input due to the larger area of contact of a finger on the touch screen.
  • the device translates the rough finger-based input into a precise pointer/cursor position or command for performing the actions desired by the user.
  • a touch-sensitive display in some embodiments of the touch screen 112 may be as described in the following applications: (1) U.S. Patent Application No. 11/381,313 , “Multipoint Touch Surface Controller,” filed on May 2, 2006; (2) U.S. Patent Application No. 10/840,862 , “Multipoint Touchscreen,” filed on May 6, 2004; (3) U.S. Patent Application No. 10/903,964 , “Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on July 30, 2004; (4) U.S. Patent Application No. 11/048,264 , “Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on January 31, 2005; (5) U.S. Patent Application No.
  • the device 100 may include a touchpad (not shown) for activating or deactivating particular functions.
  • the touchpad is a touch-sensitive area of the device that, unlike the touch screen, does not display visual output.
  • the touchpad may be a touch-sensitive surface that is separate from the touch screen 112 or an extension of the touch-sensitive surface formed by the touch screen.
  • the portable electronic device 100 may include a physical or virtual click wheel as an input control device 116.
  • a user may navigate among and interact with one or more graphical objects (henceforth referred to as icons) displayed in the touch screen 112 by rotating the click wheel or by moving a point of contact with the click wheel (e.g., where the amount of movement of the point of contact is measured by its angular displacement with respect to a center point of the click wheel).
  • the click wheel may also be used to select one or more of the displayed icons. For example, the user may press down on at least a portion of the click wheel or an associated button.
  • User commands and navigation commands provided by the user via the click wheel may be processed by an input controller 160 as well as one or more of the modules and/or sets of instructions in memory 102.
  • the click wheel and click wheel controller may be part of the touch screen 112 and the display controller 156, respectively.
  • the click wheel may be either an opaque or semitransparent object that appears and disappears on the touch screen display in response to user interaction with the device.
  • a virtual click wheel is displayed on the touch screen of a portable multifunction device and operated by user contact with the touch screen.
  • the device 100 also includes a power system 162 for powering the various components.
  • the power system 162 may include a power management system, one or more power sources (e.g., battery, alternating current (AC)), a recharging system, a power failure detection circuit, a power converter or inverter, a power status indicator (e.g., a light-emitting diode (LED)) and any other components associated with the generation, management and distribution of power in portable electronic devices.
  • a power management system e.g., one or more power sources (e.g., battery, alternating current (AC)), a recharging system, a power failure detection circuit, a power converter or inverter, a power status indicator (e.g., a light-emitting diode (LED)) and any other components associated with the generation, management and distribution of power in portable electronic devices.
  • power sources e.g., battery, alternating current (AC)
  • AC alternating current
  • the device 100 may also include one or more optical sensors 164.
  • Figure 1 shows an optical sensor coupled to an optical sensor controller 158 in I/O subsystem 106.
  • the optical sensor 164 may include charge-coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) phototransistors.
  • CCD charge-coupled device
  • CMOS complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
  • the optical sensor 164 receives light from the environment, projected through one or more lens, and converts the light to data representing an image.
  • an imaging module 143 sometimes called a camera module
  • the optical sensor 164 may capture still images or video.
  • an optical sensor is located on the back of the device 100, opposite the touch screen display 112 on the front of the device, so that the touch screen display may be used as a viewfinder for either still and/or video image acquisition.
  • an optical sensor is located on the front of the device so that the user's image may be obtained for videoconferencing while the user views the other video conference participants on the touch screen display.
  • the position of the optical sensor 164 can be changed by the user (e.g., by rotating the lens and the sensor in the device housing) so that a single optical sensor 164 may be used along with the touch screen display for both video conferencing and still and/or video image acquisition.
  • the device 100 may also include one or more proximity sensors 166.
  • Figure 1 shows a proximity sensor 166 coupled to the peripherals interface 118.
  • the proximity sensor 166 may be coupled to an input controller 160 in the I/O subsystem 106.
  • the proximity sensor 166 may perform as described in U.S. Patent Application Nos. 11/241,839 , "Proximity Detector in Handheld Device," filed September 30, 2005, and 11/240,788 , "Proximity Detector in Handheld Device,” filed September 30, 2005, which are hereby incorporated by reference.
  • the proximity sensor turns off and disables the touch screen 112 when the multifunction device is placed near the user's ear (e.g., when the user is making a phone call).
  • the proximity sensor keeps the screen off when the device is in the user's pocket, purse, or other dark area to prevent unnecessary battery drainage when the device is a locked state.
  • the software components stored in memory 102 may include an operating system 126, a communication module (or set of instructions) 128, a contact/motion module (or set of instructions) 130, a graphics module (or set of instructions) 132, a text input module (or set of instructions) 134, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module (or set of instructions) 135, and applications (or set of instructions) 136.
  • an operating system 126 a communication module (or set of instructions) 128, a contact/motion module (or set of instructions) 130, a graphics module (or set of instructions) 132, a text input module (or set of instructions) 134, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module (or set of instructions) 135, and applications (or set of instructions) 136.
  • a communication module or set of instructions 128, a contact/motion module (or set of instructions) 130, a graphics module (or set of instructions) 132, a text input module (or set of instructions) 134, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module (
  • the operating system 126 e.g., Darwin, RTXC, LINUX, UNIX, OS X, WINDOWS, or an embedded operating system such as VxWorks
  • the operating system 126 includes various software components and/or drivers for controlling and managing general system tasks (e.g., memory management, storage device control, power management, etc.) and facilitates communication between various hardware and software components.
  • the communication module 128 facilitates communication with other devices over one or more external ports 124 and also includes various software components for handling data received by the RF circuitry 108 and/or the external port 124.
  • the external port 124 e.g., Universal Serial Bus (USB), FIREWIRE, etc.
  • USB Universal Serial Bus
  • FIREWIRE FireWire
  • the external port is adapted for coupling directly to other devices or indirectly over a network (e.g., the Internet, wireless LAN, etc.).
  • the external port is a multi-pin (e.g., 30-pin) connector that is the same as, or similar to and/or compatible with the 30-pin connector used on iPod (trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.) devices.
  • the contact/motion module 130 may detect contact with the touch screen 112 (in conjunction with the display controller 156) and other touch sensitive devices (e.g., a touchpad or physical click wheel).
  • the contact/motion module 130 includes various software components for performing various operations related to detection of contact, such as determining if contact has occurred, determining if there is movement of the contact and tracking the movement across the touch screen 112, and determining if the contact has been broken (i.e., if the contact has ceased). Determining movement of the point of contact may include determining speed (magnitude), velocity (magnitude and direction), and/or an acceleration (a change in magnitude and/or direction) of the point of contact.
  • the contact/motion module 130 and the display controller 156 also detects contact on a touchpad. In some embodiments, the contact/motion module 130 and the controller 160 detects contact on a click wheel 116.
  • the graphics module 132 includes various known software components for rendering and displaying graphics on the touch screen 112, including components for changing the intensity of graphics that are displayed.
  • graphics includes any object that can be displayed to a user, including without limitation text, web pages, icons (such as user-interface objects including soft keys), digital images, videos, animations and the like.
  • the text input module 134 which may be a component of graphics module 132, provides soft keyboards for entering text in various applications (e.g., contacts 137, email client 140, IM 141, blogging 142, browser 147, and any other application that needs text input).
  • applications e.g., contacts 137, email client 140, IM 141, blogging 142, browser 147, and any other application that needs text input).
  • the GPS module 135 determines the location of the device and provides this information for use in various applications (e.g., to telephone 138 for use in location-based dialing, to camera 143 and/or blogger 142 as picture/video metadata, and to applications that provide location-based services such as weather widgets, local yellow page widgets, and map/navigation widgets).
  • applications e.g., to telephone 138 for use in location-based dialing, to camera 143 and/or blogger 142 as picture/video metadata, and to applications that provide location-based services such as weather widgets, local yellow page widgets, and map/navigation widgets).
  • the applications 136 may include the following modules (or sets of instructions), or a subset or superset thereof:
  • Examples of other applications 136 that may be stored in memory 102 include memo pad and other word processing applications, JAVA-enabled applications, encryption, digital rights management, voice recognition, and voice replication.
  • the image management module 144 may be used to arrange, modify or otherwise manipulate, label, delete, present (e.g., in a digital slide show or album), and store still and/or video images. Embodiments of user interfaces and associated processes using image management module 144 are described further below.
  • the browser module 147 may be used to browse the Internet, including searching, linking to, receiving, and displaying web pages or portions thereof, as well as attachments and other files linked to web pages. Embodiments of user interfaces and associated processes using browser module 147 are described further below.
  • memory 102 may store a subset of the modules and data structures identified above. Furthermore, memory 102 may store additional modules and data structures not described above.
  • the device 100 is a device where operation of a predefined set of functions on the device is performed exclusively through a touch screen 112 and/or a touchpad.
  • a touch screen and/or a touchpad as the primary input/control device for operation of the device 100, the number of physical input/control devices (such as pushbuttons, dials, and the like) on the device 100 may be reduced.
  • the predefined set of functions that may be performed exclusively through a touch screen and/or a touchpad include navigation between user interfaces.
  • the touchpad when touched by the user, navigates the device 100 to a main, home, or root menu from any user interface that may be displayed on the device 100.
  • the touchpad may be referred to as a "menu button.”
  • the menu button may be a physical push button or other physical input/control device instead of a touchpad.
  • Figure 2 illustrates a portable electronic device 100 having a touch screen 112 in accordance with some embodiments.
  • the touch screen may display one or more graphics.
  • a user may select one or more of the graphics by making contact or touching the graphics, for example, with one or more fingers 202 (not drawn to scale in the figure) or a stylus (not shown in the figure).
  • selection of one or more graphics occurs when the user breaks contact with the one or more graphics.
  • the contact may include a gesture, such as one or more taps, one or more swipes (e.g., from left to right, or right to left, or back-and-forth in both directions; upward, or downward, or upward and downward) and/or a rolling of a finger (from right to left, left to right, upward and/or downward) that has made contact with the device 100.
  • a gesture such as one or more taps, one or more swipes (e.g., from left to right, or right to left, or back-and-forth in both directions; upward, or downward, or upward and downward) and/or a rolling of a finger (from right to left, left to right, upward and/or downward) that has made contact with the device 100.
  • inadvertent contact with a graphic may not select the graphic.
  • a swipe gesture with that sweeps over an application icon may not select the corresponding application when the gesture corresponding to selection is a tap.
  • the portable electronic device 100 interprets the meaning of a gesture and acts accordingly after considering
  • the device 100 may also include one or more physical buttons, such as "home" or menu button 204.
  • the menu button 204 may be used to navigate to any application 136 in a set of applications that may be executed on the device 100.
  • the menu button is implemented as a soft key in a GUI in touch screen 112.
  • the device 100 includes a touch screen 112, a menu button 204, a push button 206 for powering the device on/off and locking the device, and volume adjustment button(s) 208.
  • the push button 206 may be used to turn the power on/off on the device by depressing the button and holding the button in the depressed state for a predefined time interval; to lock the device by depressing the button and releasing the button before the predefined time interval has elapsed; and/or to unlock the device or initiate an unlock process.
  • the device 100 also may accept verbal input for activation or deactivation of some functions through the microphone 113.
  • UI user interfaces
  • associated processes that may be implemented on a portable electronic device 100.
  • Figure 3 illustrates an exemplary user interface for unlocking a portable electronic device in accordance with some embodiments.
  • user interface 300 includes the following elements, or a subset or superset thereof:
  • the device detects contact with the touch-sensitive display (e.g., a user's finger making contact on or near the unlock image 302) while the device is in a user-interface lock state.
  • the device moves the unlock image 302 in accordance with the contact.
  • the device transitions to a user-interface unlock state if the detected contact corresponds to a predefined gesture, such as moving the unlock image across channel 306.
  • a predefined gesture such as moving the unlock image across channel 306.
  • the device maintains the user-interface lock state if the detected contact does not correspond to the predefined gesture.
  • Figure 4 illustrates an exemplary user interface for a menu of applications on a portable electronic device in accordance with some embodiments.
  • user interface 400 includes the following elements, or a subset or superset thereof:
  • UI 400 displays all of the available applications 136 on one screen so that there is no need to scroll through a list of applications (e.g., via a scroll bar).
  • the icons corresponding to the applications may decrease in size so that all applications may be displayed on a single screen without scrolling.
  • having all applications on one screen and a menu button enables a user to access any desired application with at most two inputs, such as activating the menu button 204 and then activating a desired application (e.g., activating the image management module 144 by a finger tap 412 or other finger gesture on the icon corresponding to the application).
  • Activating the desired application leads to another user interface corresponding to the user-selected application.
  • Figure 5 illustrates an exemplary user interface for viewing photo albums in accordance with some embodiments.
  • user interface 500 includes the following elements, or a subset or superset thereof:
  • Figure 6 illustrates an exemplary user interface for viewing an album in accordance with some embodiments.
  • user interface 1000 includes the following elements, or a subset or superset thereof:
  • the user may scroll through the thumbnails 606 using vertically upward/downward gestures 610 on the touch screen.
  • a stationary gesture on a particular thumbnail e.g., a finger tap 612 on thumbnail 606-11
  • initiates transfer of the application to a different mode i.e., an enlarged display of the corresponding image (e.g., UI 700, Figure 7 ).
  • Figure 7 illustrates an exemplary user interface for viewing enlarged images in an album in accordance with some embodiments.
  • user interface 700 includes the following elements, or a subset or superset thereof:
  • selecting the previous or next image icon is not the only way of displaying the previous or next image in the album.
  • the user can initiate viewing of the previous image by making a tap gesture 718 on the left side of the image or making a swipe gesture 716 from left to right on the image.
  • the image 706 moves off screen to the right as the previous image moves on screen from the left.
  • the user can initiate viewing of the next image by making a tap gesture 720 on the right side of the image or making a swipe gesture 716 from right to left on the image.
  • the image 706 moves off screen to the left as the next image moves on screen from the right.
  • the portable electronic device enables a user to choose whichever the user prefers, thereby making the photo management simpler and more intuitive.
  • FIGS 8A through 8D illustrate exemplary user interfaces for a browser in accordance with some embodiments.
  • user interface 800A includes the following elements, or a subset or superset thereof:
  • the portable device in response to a predefined gesture by the user on a block 814 (e.g., a single tap gesture or a double tap gesture), the portable device initiates a predefined mode of the browser application that, e.g., causes the block to be enlarged and centered (or substantially centered) in the web page display.
  • a predefined gesture by the user on a block 814 e.g., a single tap gesture or a double tap gesture
  • the portable device in response to a predefined mode of the browser application that, e.g., causes the block to be enlarged and centered (or substantially centered) in the web page display.
  • block 814-5 may be enlarged and centered in the display, as shown in UI 800B, Figure 8B .
  • the width of the user-selected block is scaled to fill the touch screen display. In some embodiments, the width of the block is scaled to fill the touch screen display with a predefined amount of padding along the sides of the display. In some embodiments, a zooming animation of the block is displayed during enlargement of the block. Similarly, in response to a single tap gesture 825 on block 814-2, block 814-2 may be enlarged with a zooming animation and two-dimensionally scrolled to the center of the display (not shown).
  • the device analyzes the render tree of the web page 812 to determine the blocks 814 in the web page.
  • a block 814 corresponds to a render node that is: a replaced inline, a block, an inline block, or an inline table.
  • the enlargement and/or centering is substantially or completely reversed.
  • the web page image may zoom out and return to UI 800A, Figure 8A .
  • the block in response to a predefined gesture (e.g., a single tap gesture or a double tap gesture) by the user on a block 814 that is already enlarged but not centered, the block is centered (or substantially centered) in the web page display.
  • a predefined gesture e.g., a single tap gesture or a double tap gesture
  • block 814-4 may be centered (or substantially centered) in the web page display.
  • block 814-6 in response to a single tap gesture 835 on block 814-6, block 814-6 may be centered (or substantially centered) in the web page display.
  • This same gesture may initiate different actions in different contexts (e.g., (1) zooming and/or enlarging a block in combination with scrolling when the block is displayed in reduced size, and (2) reversing the enlargement and/or centering if the block is already centered and enlarged).
  • the web page in response to a substantially vertical upward (or downward) swipe gesture 828 by the user, the web page (or, more generally, an electronic document) may scroll one-dimensionally upward (or downward) in the vertical direction.
  • the web page in response to a multi-touch 841 and 843 rotation gesture by the user, the web page may be rotated from portrait viewing (UI 800B, Figure 8B ) to landscape viewing (UI 800C, Figure 8C ), even if the amount of rotation in the multi-touch 841 and 843 rotation gesture is substantially different from 90°.
  • the web page in response to a multi-touch 845 and 847 rotation gesture by the user, the web page may be rotated back from landscape viewing to portrait viewing, even if the amount of rotation in the multi-touch 845 and 847 rotation gesture is substantially different from 90°.
  • multi-touch 841 and 843 rotation is performed by a user performing two substantially simultaneous finger contact rotations on or near the touch screen 112 within the display area occupied by the web page (e.g., on block 814-5).
  • UI 800B which has a portrait view
  • UI 800C landscape view
  • Figure 8D depicts a UI 800D for adding new windows to an application, such as the browser 147.
  • UI 800D displays an application (e.g., the browser 147) in a predefined mode, which includes a displayed window (e.g., web page 812-2) and at least one partially hidden window (e.g., web pages 812-1 and 812-3 and possibly other web pages that are completely hidden off-screen).
  • UI 800D also displays an icon for adding windows to the application (e.g., new window or new page icon 836).
  • the browser adds a window to the application (e.g., a new window for a new web page 812).
  • a displayed window in the application is moved off the display and a hidden window is moved onto the display.
  • the window with web page 812-2 moves partially off-screen to the right to occupy the position left by the window with web page 812-3, which may move completely off-screen.
  • the partially hidden window with web page 812-1 moves to the center of the display, and another completely hidden window with a web page (not shown) may move partially onto the display.
  • a left-to-right swipe gesture 851 on the touch screen may achieve the same effect.
  • the window with web page 812-2 moves partially to the left and pushes the window with web page 812-1 off the display.
  • the partially hidden window with web page 812-3 moves to the center of the display, and another completely hidden window with a web page (not shown) may move partially onto the display.
  • a right-to-left swipe gesture 851 may achieve the same effect.
  • the tap gestures 849 or 853 may or may not be performed on (or within) the corresponding windows 812-1 or 812-3.
  • the portable device operates in the same manner mentioned above as long as the tap gestures are within a predefined range from the corresponding windows.
  • the corresponding window 812 in response to a tap or other predefined gesture on a delete icon 834, is deleted.
  • a neighboring window moves in from the left or right to occupy the spot used to be occupied by the deleted window.
  • the window in the center of the display e.g., 812-2
  • the operations described above in connection with UI 800D are also applicable to UIs with a landscape view (e.g., UI 800A) so that the user can choose whichever view the user prefers for web browsing.
  • FIG. 9 is a generalized flowchart illustrating a process for performing a predefined operation upon detecting multiple types of user gestures on the portable electronic device's touch screen in accordance with some embodiments.
  • the device Upon a user selection of an icon in an application UI, the device displays a set of objects associated with the application on its touch screen (902).
  • the set of objects may be a set of thumbnail images (UI 600, Figure 6 ), browsing windows, web page blocks, or the like.
  • the device Upon detecting a user selection of one of the objects (904), the device displays a specific, user-selected object (e.g., an enlarged image) on the touch screen (906) and then starts monitoring user gestures on the touch screen (908).
  • a specific, user-selected object e.g., an enlarged image
  • the device identifies in the set the previous or next object that is chosen by the user (916) and displays the previous or next object on the touch screen in replacement of the current object on the display (918, 920).

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